Diabling PnP for 3COM 509-TPO Card

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Check the LInux Ethernet Howto. 
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html. Has severl 
aitems regarding the 3Com boards. The 3c509 series is discussed at 
length. Here is one relevant paragraph:
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3c509B users should use either the supplied DOS utility to disable the 
plug and play support, and to set the output media to what they require. 
The linux driver currently does not support the Autodetect media setting, 
so you have to select 10Base-T or 10Base-2 or AUI. Note that to turn off 
PnP entirely, you should do a 3C5X9CFG/PNP:DISABLE and then follow 
that with a hard reset to ensure that it takes effect. 
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On 6 Feb 2001, at 19:56, Ming Chow wrote:

> I have a dual-boot Windows/Linux machine.  I still haven't had any 
> networking capabilities for Linux, but I'm sure that my problem is due to 
> that my ethernet card (3COM 509b) has PnP enabled.  How do I disable PnP on 
> my ethernet card?  I recall that I need to download a small program to 
> diable it (from DOS).

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org
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